Container for yarn-carriers.



H. D. COLMAN.

CONTAINER FOR YARN CARRIERS. APPLICATION r'lLan JUNE 1. 19's.

Patentefl Fab 12, 1918.

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HOWARD D. COLMAN, LUTHER MILLER, AND HARRY A. SEVERSON, corAR'rnn s v iAs BARBER-COLMAN COMPANY, OF RooKroRn, ILLiNOIS.

CONTAINER FOR YARN-CARRIERS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feel). 1L2, 191%.

Original application filed April 1, 1909, Serial No. 487,347. Dividedand this application filed June 7, 1916.

7 Serial No. 102,124.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD D. CQLMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Containers forYarn-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

One of the objects of this invention is to produce a support orcontainer for bobbins or the like which shall permit unwinding of theyarn with the least possible resistance and which, when placed in thecreel, shall inclose the bobbin and prevent'the bobbin from jumping outof place.

Another object of the invention is to produce a support or container foryarn carriers having means for keeping the running thread out of contactwith adjacent threads.

This application is a division of application Serial No. 487,347, filedApril 1, 1909, (Patent No. 1,191,102, dated July 11, 1916-).

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a containerembodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of thecontainer. Fig. 3 is a fragmental front end view. Fig. 4 is a fragmentalside view of several containers stacked upon one another. Fig. 5 is afront end view of said stack. Fig. 6 is a fragmental view illustrating ameans for removably attaching a thread-guide and clearer to thecontainer.

Application Serial No. 487,347 hereinbefore referred to, discloses acreel in which each bobbin is contained in an individual box, the boxesbeing stacked on top of one another to form a plurality of verticaltiers or columns of bobbin boxes. Each box comprises a bottom wall 1,side walls 2 and 3, and end walls 4 and 5. The upper side of the box isopen, save for the inturned flanges 6 on the upper edges of the sidewalls 2 and 3. These flanges serve to stiffen the walls 2 and 3, andalso provide a seat for the next higher box in the stack. At one side ofthe box is a yarn guide and clearer 7 to receive the yarn as it comesfrom the bobbin. The guide and clearer 7 may be removably secured to thebox in order that the guide and clearer may be readily replaced by a newuide and clearer or one of diflerent size. I -Ierein the device 7 isshown as Secured in place by means of tongues 8 struck up from thesidewall 3. The yarn guide and clearer 7 is located midway of the lengthof the side wall 3. In order that the bobbin may slide longitudinallyinto the positions where its winds of yarn may pass to the guide 7 withthe least resistance, the box is preferably at least twice as long asthe bobbin.

At the top of the box and adjacent to the junction of the wal1s2 and 5is a horizontally-extending finger 9.

Attached to the outer side of the end wall 5 is a plate 10 having asuitable number of vertical thread-guiding grooves 11 in its outer face.The grooves are the same in number as the active bobbins which eachstack is intended to contain. Twenty grooves are herein shown. When theboxes are stacked one upon another, the grooves 11 of the boxes will bealined to form twenty continuous individual passageways for the yarnextending from the boxes. The threads are thus properly spaced apart andprevented from crossing or touching one another.

As shown in the drawings, the plate 10 is provided at its lower edgewith a rib 12, which extends sufficiently far below the bottom wall 1 sothat the thread from the next lower box shall be held out of contactwith the flanges 6 and finger 9 of such next lower box and out ofcontact with the bottom of the box above such thread. The upper edge ofthe plate 10 is sufliciently far below the top of the box so that thereshall be a space between the plates 10 of two adjacent boxes in a stackto permit the thread to leave the lower one of such boxes.

In use, the operative places a bobbin in the box, leads the thread ofthe bobbin through the yarn guide and clearer 7 and beneath the finger9, and secures the end of the thread in a suitable clamp (not hereinshown). When the box settles in the stack, the finger 9 serves to carrythe thread down with the box, as fully explained in said applicationSerial No. 487 ,347 When winding commences, the thread moves laterally(toward the side 3 of the box) into contact with the detector (notherein shown), and is thus positioned so that when the box settles stillfurther the thread enters the proper groove 11 of the next higher box.

As thread is drawn from the bobbin, the latter slides longitudinally soas to keep that 'portionof the bobbin from which the" thread extendsapproximately directly'opposite the guide 7 thereby enabling" thethreadto be unwound With less resistance thread guide at one side, a thread-engaging finger at the opposite side of the box-and" neaif one end of thebox; and a plurality of thread guiding devices upon the outer side ofsaid end of the box, said'finger' being adaptedto perm t a thread toslip toward-said thread-guidingdevices.

2. A- bobbin-box for winders; saidbox be ing adapted to contain a singlebobbin extending 'len'gthwise of the box, saidbox having a-bott'o'mwall, side walls and end'walls,

the top of the boxbeing open,a-thread-guiding hook upon one sideof'and'Within the box, thev closed end of the book beingclirected toward-oneend'of the box, and parallel thread-guiding grooves upon the ex-' teriorof said end of the box.

3. A: bobbin-boxior winders having a bottom'wva'll', side Walls and endWalls, the" top' ofthe' box being open,a threadguideon the box at'apioint between the ends of the box,

and parallel vertical thread guiding grooves uponthe exterior-ofone endof the' box".-

lrA zbobbin-boxfir winders, a threadguiding hook upon one-side of thebox", the

tom' wall, side walls and end walls, a thread guide on one of the sidewalls, athreadengaging finger at-theopposite side-ofithe' boxand nearone end 'ofthe box, and 'a plurality of thread guidin'g devices upomtheouter side of said 1 end of the box:

-7-. A bobbin-box for winderg having, a-

substantially'. flat T bottomand verticalusidewalls having Jsubstantially"straightupper edges to support the bottom ofa similar box,anda thread guide on one of said side wallsi substantially mid-Way, ofthe length ofthe box, said boxbeing-got! such. lengththat the bobbin mayreciprocate longitudi n'allywithin the box to bring; the par-tofthebobbin which is being unwoundsube stantially opposite said 'guideu V u8. A bobbin-box for winders, saith box being elongated and havingparallel 1thread+ ruidin rooves;u on the exterior of one i: a:

endof thebox; r In: testimonywhereof; I-vhave hereunto set hand. v a

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